Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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BOOKING OVKR CLOTH BOOTHS TO CLOCK TOWER. of the States with their coats-of-arms, and gigantic eagles with up-lifted wings are poised on the pedmients over the entrances. Through the centre of the buildincr north and south, from entranceto entrance, runs a veritable street, Columbia avenue, fifty feet wideand studded at the corners of each intersecting street or aislewith ornamental lamp-posts bearing electric lights. Across this MANUFACTURES. 103 Street at Its middle runs another of the same width, thus dividingthe interior of the building into four immense rectangular spaces,which are each further divided by intersecting cross aisles. In thecentre of the building, at the Intersection of the two main streets,stands an Imposing clock-tower. This maornificent clock-tower Is 120 teet hlo^h, with a base of 20feet diameter, which is formed of four square towers, rising to a
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PART OV BRITISH SECTION. height of 40 feet and each terminating In a dome. The archwaysof these lower towers culminate in a groined dome, over which isthe first floor of the main tower. An ornamental balcony sur-rounds this story. Its principal decorations being the shields of theStates of the Union and the coats-of-arms of the South AmericanStates. The tower at this point narrows to a diameter of 24 feet,and upon the next floor is placed the mechanism of the great 104 MANUFACTUKKb.

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